Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-12
FORT WORTH OR DALLAS

lishment # great live stock market in
Texas. There can be only one great
market in the state. Whichever town is
the fortunate one will rank in COM
mercial importance as Kansas. City
does to Missouri and Chicago to
Illinois. The first great point
gained is the successful operation
of live stock packing and refrigera-
tor plant and this gained, other plants
of similar character will cluster around
it to fill out the elements that go toward
placing one center above all others.
Now is a critical time to Fort Worth.
To-day Fort Worth is actually the great
city OF Texas in the live stock trade,
and has now to choose between making
further advance, with the alternative of
decided retrogade movement.
To-day at 10 a. m, before the meeting
Of the Texas Live Stock Association
propositions will be made by representa-
tives of all the leading Texas cities, and
inducements will be held out for financial
support, and for the Endorsement of
schemes for refrigerating and marketing
all cur live stock productions.
What shape these propositions will take
yet remains to be developed. OF one
thing we may be assured: The convention
will take decided action and will materi-
ally assist in building up the first plant
in working order.
These stOckmen are all of one mind
In the refrigerating system they seek
the salvation of their business.
They now suffer from the die
tation of monopoly that, having
Chicago, st. LOUIS and Kansas City under
control, is debating the prices of cattle
in Texas. These stockmen will rally
round substantial refrigerator plant,
and where local enterprise begins with
hearty support. They will support it in the
hope that competition will be created in
the course of reasonable time so they
will get out Of the clutches of the Chicago
monopolists. They will either take
stock in the enterprise or furnish bonus
in cash or cattle, conditional upon the es-
tablishment of permanent market.
As a matter of interest to Fort Worth
this system of refrigeration is of imme-
diate and pressing Importance. What
ever may be done by other cities will be
done heartily and from a knowledge of
the urgency of the situation. Dallas has
several of her strongest men working to
create local interest, and they are will
ing themselves to put large sums of
money toward constructing an immense
refrigerator plant. They are working
to make Dallas the great live stock mar
ket and to insure to that city the perma-
nent and lasting benefits to be derived
therefrom. In this struggle Fort Worth
has and can keep the upper hand. The
refrigerator here is in the hands of man
who has tried it, and after giving it q
trial concluded to buy it. 1t is q |
magnificent property Of great capacity,
built by experienced hands and fully
equal to g plant OF the same capacity in
Chicago or Kansas City. The owner is
obliged to ask the citizens of Fort Worth
TO show that the local interest is behind
1t in order to enable him to enlist the
large amount of capital necessary for the
conduct of the business. He asks, as
many railroad managers have asked, for
conditional bonus, so that he lcan
offer to investors profit from
the investment and also security |
He ought not to ask in vain. Fort Worth |
must act, the promise to pay few thou |
sand dollars one year after the works are
in operation must be forthcoming. It is |
all that is required. If the works should |
fail, the obligations are null and void, and !
the success of the works will SO far eX- |
coed the present expectations that the |
trifiing bonus asked will amount to moth |
ing in the great Tide of prosperity it will |
bring.
Fort Worth is the live stock center OF |
Texas. The question now before the peo- |
pie is. shall the livestock trade of Texas |
be presented to the city of Dallas? To- !
day Fort Worth should send to the Stock |
Association at Dallas an assurance that |
the Fort Worth refrigerator will shortly |
be in active operation and furnishing 8 |
strong market for cattle.